Improvement in felted fabrics



NITFD STATES PATENT FFICFo JAMES EPOLLARD, OF NORFOLK, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN FELTED FABRICS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 147,165, dated February3, 1874; application tiled September Q3, 1873.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES E. POLLARDy/t Figure lis a perspective view,Fig. 2, a section through line a a.; and Fig. 3, a section through lineb b of Fig. l.

This invention consists of cloth made to imitate a quilted fabric, andasespecially applicable as materialibr fe iirts. This fabric is producedby taking clt'clotl1,as made by any suitable proce l, and passing itbetween heated calende olls, one of which, at least, is grooved,.0r 'e`{rraved by any suitable design, andthe fe ingrolls which feed the clothto the heatedl rolls are -made to vibrate, so as to give a jerkingmotion to the cloth as it passes to the heated rolls. The effect of thisoperation is to loosen the iibers at that part where it is not iirinlygrasped by the hot rolls, and to give a puff or swell in the cloth, sothat it resembles a quilted fabric. The appa-rent color is also changedat these parts, so as to give a resemblance to a fabric of a diii'erentshade. The parts which are iirmly grasped by the -prominent part-s ofthe rolls have a smooth polish, while those portions which pass undertheV depressions in the heated rolls have a dull luster, and, with thejerking of the vibrating feeding-roll, give adisturbed condition to thebers, and produce a resemblance to quilting.

The apparatus suitable for forming this kind of cloth I have describedin another application of even date with this, and there- `fore need notbe more particularly described.

as inv this application I claim only the improved fabric which isproduced bythe working of saidL machine.

In the drawing, the raised portions show those parts which pass over thedepressionsin .the heated rolls, and the vibrating of the feed- Havingthus described my invention, what,

I claim, and desire' to secure by Letters Iatent of the United States,is-

The improved felt fabric herein described, having a portion of itssurface smooth, by means of hot rolls, and a portion raised and shirredor buckled, so as to give an imitation quilted fabric, as described.

JAMES E. IOLLARI).

W'itnesses ALFRED RODMAN, EDWARD F. WILDDR.

